The Girl in the Road

2014 novel by Monica Byrne

The Girl in the Road

First edition

Author| Monica Byrne
Language| English
Genre| Science fiction
Publisher| Crown Publishing Group

Publication date

| May 20, 2014
Publication place| United States
Media type| Print
Pages| 336 (hardback)
ISBN| 978-0804138840

The Girl in the Road is a 2014 science fiction novel by Monica Byrne. It tracks two stories in parallel: one of a primary protagonist, Meena, as she crosses a floating energy-harvesting bridge that spans the Arabian Sea from India to Djibouti some time in the 2060s, and another of the youth and young adulthood of Mariama, who travels several decades earlier from Western Africa to Ethiopia.[1][2]

The Girl in the Road is Byrne's debut novel.[3] The Wall Street Journal described it as "a new sensation, a real achievement",[4] while NPR criticized it, saying "the pulpiest of genre mysteries are shoved into the narrative, only to be neglected or resolved anti-climactically" and that "the result is a ragged patchwork of concepts, interconnections and intriguing possibilities, many of which wind up as red herrings."[5] It shared the 2014 James Tiptree, Jr. Award with Jo Walton's My Real Children.[6] It was also a finalist for the UK's Kitschies Golden Tentacle award for debut speculative fiction novel.[7]

In August 2015, a German translation was published under the title Die Brücke (The Bridge).[8]

## References

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1. ^ Hubble, Nick (9 May 2014). "A Ceaseless Storm of Matter and Energy". Los Angeles Review of Books. Retrieved 13 August 2015.
2. ^ Heller, Jason (22 May 2014). "'Girl In The Road' Is A Dizzying Journey". NPR. Retrieved 13 August 2015.
3. ^ Calder, Jeff (25 July 2014). "Dual quests fuel futuristic 'Girl in the Road'". The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Retrieved 13 August 2015.
4. ^ "Book Review: 'The Girl in the Road' by Monica Byrne". Wall Street Journal.
5. ^ Heller, Jason. "'Girl In The Road' Is A Dizzying Journey". NPR.
6. ^ "2014 Tiptree Award Winners! And more". James Tiptree, Jr. Literary Award Council. 24 February 2010. Retrieved 13 August 2015.
7. ^ "Golden Tentacle (Debut)". The Kitschies. Retrieved 13 August 2015.
8. ^ Byrne, Monica (12 August 2015). "Once more, AUF DEUTSCH". Retrieved 14 August 2015.

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Otherwise Award/James Tiptree Jr. Award Winners

Retrospective
winners|

* Motherlines and Walk to the End of the World by Suzy McKee Charnas
* The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
* The Female Man and "When It Changed" by Joanna Russ

1991–2000|

* A Woman of the Iron People by Eleanor Arnason (1991, tie)
* White Queen by Gwyneth Jones (1991, tie)
* China Mountain Zhang by Maureen F. McHugh (1992)
* Ammonite by Nicola Griffith (1993)
* "The Matter of Seggri" by Ursula K. Le Guin (1994, tie)
* Larque on the Wing by Nancy Springer (1994, tie)
* Waking the Moon by Elizabeth Hand (1995, tie)
* The Memoirs Of Elizabeth Frankenstein by Theodore Roszak (1995, tie)
* "Mountain Ways" by Ursula K. Le Guin (1996, tie)
* The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell (1996, tie)
* Black Wine by Candas Jane Dorsey (1997, tie)
* "Travels With The Snow Queen" by Kelly Link (1997, tie)
* "Congenital Agenesis of Gender Ideation" by Raphael Carter (1998)
* The Conqueror's Child by Suzy McKee Charnas (1999)
* Wild Life by Molly Gloss (2000)

2001–2010|

* The Kappa Child by Hiromi Goto (2001)
* Light by M. John Harrison (2002, tie)
* "Stories for Men" by John Kessel (2002, tie)
* Set This House in Order: A Romance of Souls by Matt Ruff (2003)
* Camouflage by Joe Haldeman (2004, tie)
* Not Before Sundown by Johanna Sinisalo (2004, tie)
* Air by Geoff Ryman (2005)
* The Orphan's Tales: In the Night Garden by Catherynne M. Valente (2006, tie)
* Half Life by Shelley Jackson (2006, tie)
* James Tiptree Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon by Julie Phillips (2006, special recognition)
* The Carhullan Army by Sarah Hall (2007)
* The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness (2008, tie)
* Filter House by Nisi Shawl (2008, tie)
* Cloud and Ashes: Three Winter’s Tales by Greer Gilman (2009, tie)
* Ōoku: The Inner Chambers by Fumi Yoshinaga (2009, tie)
* Baba Yaga Laid an Egg by Dubravka Ugrešić (2010)

2011–2020|

* Redwood and Wildfire by Andrea Hairston (2011)
* The Drowning Girl by Caitlín R. Kiernan (2012, tie)
* Ancient, Ancient by Kiini Ibura Salaam (2012, tie)
* Rupetta by N. A. Sulway (2013)
* The Girl in the Road by Monica Byrne (2014, tie)
* My Real Children by Jo Walton (2014, tie)
* "The New Mother" by Eugene Fischer (2015, tie)
* Lizard Radio by Pat Schmatz (2015, tie)
* When the Moon Was Ours by Anna-Marie McLemore (2016)
* Who Runs the World? by Virginia Bergin (2017)
* "They Will Dream in the Garden" by Gabriela Damián Miravete (2018)
* Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi (2019)
* Ife-Iyoku, the Tale of Imadeyunuagbon by Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki (2020)

2021–present|

* Light from Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki (2021, tie)
* Sorrowland by Rivers Solomon (2021, tie)

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